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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: xx vs. uu
Message-ID: <90052.022126CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 07:21:26 GMT
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <AUSTIN.90Feb13152915@bucsf.bu.edu>
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In article <507@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) says:
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>In article <2973@draken.nada.kth.se> perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>
>| Sorry, but Unix IS NOT ONE operating system. Is is at least a dozen
>| different, and as it is now, ZOO is avaliable for almost every normal
>| variant, whereas lharc is BSD only, and Unzip isn't publicated.
>
>  There is a version of lharc which runs on SysV, but it fails if ints
>are not 16 bits. If you change all the int statements to short it runs
>on more machines. Unfortunately that doesn't help the user with a full
>size 64 bit word, some there's still a problem.

K&R2 [ANSI-standard] C specifies:

   "int" (neither far nor short) implicitly means "short int"

   "short int"s are 16 bits

Your compiler is broken.


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